This paper demonstrates a stacking sequence optimisation process of a composite aircraft wing skin. A two-stage approach is employed to satisfy all sizing requirements of this industrial sized, medium altitude, long e...
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This paper demonstrates a stacking sequence optimisation process of a composite aircraft wing skin. A two-stage approach is employed to satisfy all sizing requirements of this industrial sized, medium altitude, long endurance drone. In the first stage of the optimisation, generic stacks are used to describe the thickness and stiffness properties of the structure while considering both structural requirements and discrete guidelines such as blending. In the second stage of the optimisation, mathematical programming is used to solve a mixedinteger Linear programming formulation of the stacking sequence optimisation. The proposed approach is suitable for real-world thick structures comprised of multiple patches. Different thickness discretisation strategies are examined for the retrieval of the discrete stacking sequences, with each one having a different influence on the satisfaction of all structural constraints across the various sub-components of the wing. The weight penalty introduced between the continuous and final discrete design of the proposed approach is negligible.
In the time of global warming, smart and resilient cities need to have the ability to give quick responses to today's frequent natural disasters. Building a resilient urban transportation system that can timely re...
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In the time of global warming, smart and resilient cities need to have the ability to give quick responses to today's frequent natural disasters. Building a resilient urban transportation system that can timely recover the accessibility of the rescue facilities is vital to the survival chances of citizens. From the perspective of selectively road restoration, we proposed a mixed integer programming model that is based on community hierarchy to provide quick disaster response for damaged urban road networks. This model can efficiently find roads that should give repairing priority to maximize the connectivity in a limited repairing scale. Network community structure has been innovatively introduced into our model, which can remarkably simplify the searching process by extracting critical connectivity information. The model has been tested on square-shaped road networks and Istanbul road networks. The results show that our community structure model gives superior solutions in significantly reduced computational time, and is practical in solving complex real-world large-scale connectivity repairing problems. These findings provide new insights into the understanding of the important role played by mesoscopic topological knowledge of road networks when seeking strategies and solutions for connectivity emergency restoration, which is significant for the development of resilient and sustainable cities.
The preparation of quality raw slurry is a complicated and crucial process in alumina production which determines the cost and efficiency of the entire production. In the mixing unit, some tanks with fully filled raw ...
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The preparation of quality raw slurry is a complicated and crucial process in alumina production which determines the cost and efficiency of the entire production. In the mixing unit, some tanks with fully filled raw slurry are available to be selected in each round, and the components in these selected tanks are required to be mixed, meanwhile some ratios of chemical compositions in the final mixture must be strictly within the required level. This is the production procedure of quality raw slurry. To improve production efficiency and reduce operation time lags, this selection and proportioning problem is formulated as a mixed integer programming problem. An optimization algorithm developed based on the moving time domain is applied to find the optimal selection and the optimal mixing proportioning strategy such that the productivity of the quality raw slurry is maximized. Practical on-site comparison experiments are carried out using the proposed method and the method based on the experience of the operator. The results obtained show that the proposed approach is effective and has advantage in the preparation of quality raw slurry with high efficiency and maximal productivity.
This paper investigates the impact of inventory management optimization on fruit loss, and inventory and processing costs in apple supply chains. It proposes new inventory policies regarding the configuration of high-...
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This paper investigates the impact of inventory management optimization on fruit loss, and inventory and processing costs in apple supply chains. It proposes new inventory policies regarding the configuration of high-tech storage rooms, where apples are stored to meet the annual demand. Each configuration gives rise to a different set of storage room, which will preserve the apples for a specified period of time. To quantify the impact of these policies, we apply a mathematical programming model to the Australian apple industry and analyze the results for two different configurations of storage rooms: (1) a fixed number of each type of storage room and (2) a flexible arrangement in which different numbers of storage rooms of each type are active during different time periods. The comparative effectiveness of the two scenarios is investigated through a case study. The flexible configuration is found to be superior as it reduces fruit loss and total storage and processing costs by 7.7% and 1.5%, respectively, over the fixed configuration. Finally, a comprehensive sensitivity analysis of some of the parameters of the model is performed. This allows the provision of valuable insights and recommendations which empower apple industry stakeholders to improve their inventory performance.
A static-dynamic topology-sizing optimisation method is presented. The solution is based on a sequential mixed- integer Linear programming solution and aims to minimise the mass of a structure subjected to concurrent ...
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A static-dynamic topology-sizing optimisation method is presented. The solution is based on a sequential mixed- integer Linear programming solution and aims to minimise the mass of a structure subjected to concurrent constraints on static and dynamic response. It is shown that the classical problem of the dynamics of lightweight sandwich structures may be mitigated through core topology and face sheet thickness combinations, retaining the static load carrying capacity while presenting stringent dynamic properties at a low mass penalty. A numerical example, in the form of a load carrying sandwich beam which is excited at different frequencies, is used to demonstrate the method.
In this study we consider a single machine due date assignment problem involving dynamic job arrivals and family setups. The due date quotation process is based on periodically generating schedules of new and old jobs...
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In this study we consider a single machine due date assignment problem involving dynamic job arrivals and family setups. The due date quotation process is based on periodically generating schedules of new and old jobs. We want to keep the tardiness of old jobs below an allowable threshold while minimizing total completion time of new arriving jobs. We propose a mixedinteger linear programming formulation to solve the scheduling problem. We also present a function to quote due dates for new jobs. An experimental analysis is conducted to analyze the proposed due date quotation process under various shop and solution procedure parameters. Three performance measures are considered: average quoted lead time, average tardiness, number of setups perfouned. The first significant outcome of our analysis is that existence of family setups plays a crucial role;the second significant observation is that batching plays a double-edged sword role in due date management.
The Covid-19 epidemic, has caused a large-scale congestion in many ports around the world. This increases the cost of port docking, as well as delays the loading and unloading of goods, which affects the price and tim...
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The Covid-19 epidemic, has caused a large-scale congestion in many ports around the world. This increases the cost of port docking, as well as delays the loading and unloading of goods, which affects the price and timely supply of many products. Although scholars have carried out in-depth discussion and analysis on the port congestion problem from different perspectives, there is still no appropriate model and algorithm for the largescale comprehensive port docking problem. This paper presents a new mixed integer programming model for optimal docking of ships in ports that is comprehensive enough to include four essential objectives. It discusses the generalization and application of the model from the perspectives of the shortest overall waiting time of ships, the balance of tasks at each berth, completion of all docking tasks as soon as possible and meeting the expected berthing time of ships. We demonstrate the results of our models using relevant examples and show that our model can obtain the optimal docking scheme based on different perspectives and relevant objectives. We also show that the scale of the exact solution can reach tens of thousands of decision variables and more than a million constraints. This fully reflects the possibility that the model can be put into use in any real life scenario. This model can not only effectively improve the docking efficiency of the port, but is also suitable for the complex queuing problem of multi window and the same type of service.
This paper studies a scheduling problem application for the optimization of the employees used in aircrafts’ refueling in a medium size airport. The problem is modelled as a particular resource leveling problem for w...
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This paper studies a scheduling problem application for the optimization of the employees used in aircrafts’ refueling in a medium size airport. The problem is modelled as a particular resource leveling problem for which we provide a mixedinteger mathematical formulation that we solve with CPLEX. The model allows to evaluate and analyse different scenarios that could be considered by the company in place of the current one in order to rearrange the available human resources used in refueling activity. Experimental results on a set of real test cases provided by an oil & gas company are discussed.
This research studies production scheduling problems with stochastic customer demand for food processing factories to determine a multi-period production schedule that minimizes the total cost and achieves a predeterm...
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This research studies production scheduling problems with stochastic customer demand for food processing factories to determine a multi-period production schedule that minimizes the total cost and achieves a predetermined customer service level. Based on the practical food processing conditions, this study constructs a mixed integer programming (MIP) mathematical model and applies chance constrained programming (CCP) to transform probabilistic constraints of customer demand into deterministic constraints of customer demand with the associated normal distributions. Using the numerical data, this research verifies the proposed methodology. For sensitivity analysis, the results show that increasing overtime hours decreases the total cost and enhancing customer service level increases the total cost. Furthermore, this study investigates the impacts of different forecasting and production schedules on out-of-stock costs, inventory costs, and both.
Portfolio selection concerns identifying an optimal composition of various risky assets and their corresponding holding amounts such that the corresponding investment strategy strikes a balance between maximizing the ...
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Portfolio selection concerns identifying an optimal composition of various risky assets and their corresponding holding amounts such that the corresponding investment strategy strikes a balance between maximizing the expected investment return and minimizing investment risk. While market frictions make full diversification impractical, cardinality constrained mean-variance (CCMV) portfolio selection problem emerges as a natural remedy: Given an asset pool with total n assets and a given cardinality s < n , optimally choose s assets from the entire asset pool such as to achieve a mean-variance efficiency. Unfortunately, CCMV has been proved to be NP hard and has been posted in front of optimization society as a long-standing challenge. By invoking structural market information and utilizing fast clustering algorithm for classification, we develop in this paper an effective heuristic scheme to identify approximate solutions for large-scale CCMV problems. More specifically, by constructing grouping constraints generated from factor-model based clustering algorithm and attaching them to the mixed integer programming formulation associated with the CCMV problem, we are able to significantly reduce the computational complexity, thus offering a fast algorithm with relatively high quality solution.
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